24. imOPODYTES. 



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Adult male. General plumage above ashy grey, glossed on the 

 back with olive-green and passing into bright metallic olive-green 

 on (ho wings and tail, with a shade of blue most pronounced on 

 the quills ; tail-feathers broadly tipped with white ; most of the 

 featliers of the crown with black shafts and those of the forehead 

 with partial white edges; sides of the head bare and scarlet; in 

 front of this bare skin a patcli of black feathers, above and below 

 edged with black and white, or with entirely white feathers ; 

 undcrjiarts ashy grey, paler towards the chin, and with black 

 shafts to the feathers of the throat ; the breast gradually passing 

 into dusky slate-colour on the abdomen, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts, the latter generally glossed with green ; under wing- 

 coverts dusky ash-colour; under surface of quiUs uniform glossy 

 blackish blue : " bill pale green, tinted with rod from nostrils to 

 gape ; iris deep red-brown ; legs and feet dark greenish lead- 

 colour " (Davison). Total length 19 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 6-2, 

 tail 12-6, tarsus l-o5. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 21 

 inches, culmen 1-4, wing 6*7, tail 13, tarsus l'5o. 



Ilab. Central and Northern India, extending throughout the 

 Bui'mesc provinces to Cochin China and Hainan, and down the 

 Malayan Peninsula. 



